On: Why Don’t Hotels Use Roombas?

[ivankirigin]

Because vacuuming is <5% of what cleaning people do. You'd need an auto-emptying robot too, which is much harder to make. And you'd need to make it much more reliable - drastically increasing the life of the product. That's very hard.

[mattmaroon → ivankirigin]

Especially given that it needs to remain small in order to get under beds. You can't just slap a giant battery on it.